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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

From
“Armageddon” to “Pearl Harbor” to the “Transformers”
franchise, director Michael Bay has spent his 20-year career giving
human stories the epic, action-adventure treatment. Together, his 11
films have grossed a staggering $5 billion-plus, making him the
fourth-most-successful director of all time.

Now,
Michael Bay brings audiences Paramount Pictures' "13 Hours: The
Secret Soldiers of Benghazi," the gripping true story of six
elite ex-military operators assigned to protect the CIA who fought
back against overwhelming odds when terrorists attacked a U.S.
diplomatic compound on September 11, 2012. When everything went
wrong, six men had the courage to do what was right.

(Watch
a featurette on Michael Bay below)

The
film is written by Chuck Hogan, based on the book 13 Hours by
Mitchell Zuckoff and Members of the Annex Security Team, and stars
James Badge Dale, John Krasinski, Max Martini, Pablo Schreiber, Toby
Stephens, David Denman and Dominic Fumusa.

The
real-life soldiers were happy with the choice of Bay to direct “13
Hours.” "I thought `Armageddon' was awesome," says Kris
"Tanto" Paronto, a former Army Ranger. Adds former Marine
Mark "Oz" Geist, "Some people are like, 'Oh, Michael
Bay, he does all the explosions.' Well, the real event had plenty of
explosions. So it's not like he had to come up with any."

Bay
says the main point of the movie is to honor the heroism of the
soldiers. “There was a great human story, that got buried. And
that's the story I'm telling: the guys who were on the ground. The
men and women that were stuck in the CIA annex, and how they fought
for 13 hours to get out of there alive. We worked very hard to get
the facts right from the research of the book that (author Zuckoff)
did to the amazing access I have from working 20 years with the
military, from the boots on the ground, the people who were in
country to the CIA at a high level meeting to get just the facts
right, the recently released emails. We just had to get it right.”

“13
Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi” opens across the
Philippines on January 27, 2016 and is distributed by
United International Pictures through Columbia Pictures.